CARY — Former state auditor candidate Debra Goldman has resigned from the Wake County Board of Education because she is moving away from the area.

Goldman abruptly left the board Friday, sending an email saying she is taking a job with a nonprofit. Voting records show she has moved her official residence from Cary to Wilkes County.

Goldman lost her race to be state auditor last year, in part after allegations surfaced in the final week of the campaign that she had an affair with another school board member. Goldman denied the allegations, but Democrat Beth Wood was re-elected to a second term with 54 percent of the vote.

Goldman is the second Republican to leave the Wake County board in recent months. Chris Malone was elected to the North Carolina House